I've been away for a while... Is Crow a moderator now? A kind of forum death-squad? Is he able to ban people at will? Maybe this is the forum-eugenics thing that certain of us have been hoping for, for years. Still, the vibe is kind of intense. I don't love it.

"...music, creating, it’s like therapy for me, and if you have a therapist who’s making you more angry and not doing you any good, you fire them and think about getting a new one."

But maybe he was never really IN it:"The music itself only had a firm grip on me for a few years... I never learned anything from it, musically or aside from that; it never “empowered” me or anything like that. I don’t think anyone would be able to tell me what I’m missing out on by not having it in my life anymore."

This album presents micro-songs, in the due punk fashion, blasted forth with a bpm rate that is dangerously close to Slayer's "Hell Awaits." Guitar technique uses disharmonies (Slayer), Nihilistic power chord churning, morbid thematics (Slayer), Crash cymbol usage in what would later appear in Speed Metal drumming similar to "Altar of Sacrifice," and ghoulish face paint aesthetic closer to what would come to be "Corpse Paint" than ever before.

I'm necroposting this to ask...has anybody seen extreme metal bands cite the Misfits, and 'Earth A.D.' specifically? The guitars are a richly suffocating miasma, tendrils of feedback slinking at every turn, and such gruesome lyrics.

This was the first album I heard that was anywhere close to extreme (in like 1993), truly scary shit that you DON'T want parents finding! It was the first thing I thought of when I heard Black Metal and Death Metal a decade later.

I don't know the best place to start--I've only heard 'Tetragrammatical Astygmata' & their final, 'Advent Parallax'. The latter has clear, Necromorbus production. I've been contemplating it for a couple of years, it still reveals a ton of new shit, I can't quite understand it, but it seduces me nevertheless.

Though I'm not a fan of Leviathan, Xasthur, or Striborg, I found this doco really entertaining and interesting. Most compelling and fascinating was that Xasthur seemed almost non-human, a cipher.

You see Striborg mention he's a husband and father. Leviathan explaining his entire life story, showing us his old house, photo albums of his deceased girlfriend, the love of his life. He 'fucking hates being around people', but seems like he could have a conversation.

He mentions that hypothetically meeting a like-minded person would make him "...glad", though he stutters even trying to speak that word, as though he can barely conceive it happening. He lacks the Hessian signifiers of longhair, band shirts, leather jackets, bad-ass beard--no hairstyle at all. His eyes dart about, he fidgets, he looks like an old dementia patient in the body of a 38 year old.

He seems to embody the True Kvlt Authentic Misanthrope we've long demanded from our Black Metal: writing about hate, despair, and death, but NOT hanging out, drinking beers, having girlfriends, working in graphic design, or having any hope whatsoever.